Final Project - second try, using front lighting.

For my second try, I wanted to try front lighting to bring out the fruit colors and set all the backgrounds black.

I took out the plexiglass behind the glass, moved the strobe to the front left of the glass, hung black fabric behind the glass, and removed the fill flash. The white area behind the base of the glass was because the black fabric wasn't big enough, I had to replace it before the final shoots. The strobe was firing thru a beauty dish which causes the white circle reflection.

To get rid of the strobe reflection I tried shooting the strobe into an umbrella which didn't work well either.

The beauty dish with the white cover, still not what I wanted.

Removed the beauty dish and shot the strobe through the white plexiglass. This was close to what I wanted but the reflections were still annoying, however I found that the splash obscured the reflections enough that this setup was acceptable.

Front lighting setup.

After the first test shots I added more black fabric to cover things that were showing up in reflections. I also added a reflector to try to light both sides.

 What happens when you work in a dark room. I forgot to put the glass back. When I turned the light out to fix it, the light triggered the flash.